Oh, then yeah, this seems like a perfect way to help that out! Ignore my DSL suggestions.
Tony On Oct 30, 2:23 pm, "Dan Kubb (dkubb)" <dan.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jacques, > > > I'm a big fan of this change, however I would say this isn't going to > > replace Datamapper's desperate need for a simple, and straightforward > > OR syntax with finders. > > I agree. The main reason for introducing this is that it fits in with > the Collection API naturally, and provides primitive logic that we can > build even better APIs on top of easily. > > > Dan, have you looked at the syntax proposed by dm-sugar-glider? Maybe > > something similar would be a good approach for easy OR > > querieshttp://github.com/knowtheory/dm-sugar-glider > > This actually is inspired somewhat by the Sugar Glider project that > Ted (knowtheory) is working on. To make things easier for that > project, I was speccing the Query conditions API, and realized that it > might make it easier if there was a simple way to combine new > conditions with existing conditions. If we think of a Query as a Set, > and provide the standard union/intersection/difference methods it > makes this alot easier. Then I thought: what if I expose this through > the Collection? Set operations are *already* available on Collection, > they just lazy load and are totally inefficient -- what if I make it > so they don't lazy load and simply combine the conditions together? > That's how this idea was born. > > The Sugar Glider project is more of an experimental query interface > that when complete, I would like everyone to try, and if it proves > useful we can talk about merging it into the core. It provides > similar capabilities to my dm-ambition gem (which is awesome if you're > running on 1.8), but it will have no dependency on ParseTree, so > should work equally well with 1.8, 1.9 and JRuby. > > -- > > Dan > (dkubb) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
